Ooh, me too. I’ll bet there’s a how-to book (I’ll check the self-help aisle of Powell’s on my way to the meeting*).
*After the streetlights turn on, at the clubhouse in the old oak behind Skippy’s house. Pull the ladder up behind you so none of the gang from the Actual Douchebags Club can spy on us.
Given that I own underwear that came from the store pink, no, it doesn’t particularly bother me and regardless of who is or isn’t going to see it, stained underwear bothers ME.
Also, re: kids showing up with stained clothes, as a society we not only understand that kids treat their clothes more roughly than adults, we expect that children’s clothing should show some signs of use. A kid with jeans that don’t have grass stains is a kid that hasn’t lived.
There’s nothing wrong with this. Lots of people did this through the 50s and 60s. But shirts are a pain in the ass and with many dry cleaners offering $1 shirt cleaning, it’s often a better idea to just send them in.
Whereabouts of his tongue aside, if **Drunky Smurf **is in fact performing an extended parody of a rampaging boardshitting asshole, I confess to being whooshed as well.
I don’t think that $200 is all that expensive, for work clothes. Especially if the OP is using the new price to determine the value, rather than replacement price. If a pair of jeans or khakis cost $30 new, for instance, if the OP uses that cost for determining the value, then 7 pairs will come out to a perceived value of $210, even though they are not new any more, and it would be more realistic to value the pants at five or ten bucks a pair. Same thing with shirts, especially if the OP has to wear polo shirts instead of Ts. The OP is probably estimating how much money he spent on buying the clothes, and how much he’ll have to spend replacing the clothes, rather than estimating how much the clothes would currently be worth on the open market, assuming that they are unstained.
My husband and his co-workers are allowed to wear jeans, but my husband tends to wear khakis or similar pants, and he does take them to the dry cleaners, not because they need the special laundering, but because he prefers to have his work pants pressed, and I won’t do it. He’s found out WHY I won’t iron stuff, and he’s decided that HE doesn’t want to drag out the iron every week, either. I know that my father’s work suits were dry cleaned, but they were suits, made of wool. And my mother did his shirts (mostly button down long sleeved shirts) at home. She also shortened his shirt sleeves (Daddy was only 5’3", and off the rack clothes always had to be shortened just about everywhere) at home.
Now, I do think that the OP is being unreasonable in his responses to the board members.
